Fall/Winter 2000
VolumeXXIV,No.3
The Inmans today and during their Stetson years
Jack and Butchie Wadsworth Inman: Stetson shaped our lives
Jack and Alda Butchie Inman have loved Stetson University and each other
for more than 50 years. So when they sold their business and planned their estate,
it was natural for them to remember Stetson. "Stetson University shaped our
lives," Butchie Wadsworth Inman said, "We met here and we married the year
before I graduated in the summer of '51."
A DeLand native, Jack Inman grew up on the shores of Lake Winnemissett and
learned to swim before he learned to walk. He entered Stetson in 1942, but with World
War II raging he soon joined the Navy, serving mostly in the Pacific. After the war, he
returned to DeLand and received a Stetson business administration degree in 1947,
and a Stetson law degree in 1949. He played the sousaphone in Stetson's band, and was a
member of the Interfraternity Council, Phi Alpha Delta legal fraternity, Ye Mystic Krewe honor
society and Pi Kappa Phi fraternity, which he served as president.
Butchie Wadsworth was born in Manchester, Ga., and came to Stetson in 1945 on the
recommendation of her Methodist minister. She never regretted it. "It's a small school; once
when I had a problem (the late) Etter Turner (former dean of women) talked to me in her
office, and it felt like she was my mother," she said. "Stetson had an intimate family atmosphere, and the town was delightful. My Stetson education was excellent; there was no
downside to it." An elementary education major, she was active in Zeta Tau Alpha sorority.
Graduating in 1951, she taught school for a few years after their marriage, andjack Inman
founded Corporate Group Services, a third-party worker's compensation business. Residents of
Winter Park, they had four children, one of whom, Dr. LeeAnn Inman, is a 1976 Stetson
graduate and serves as senior minister of First United Methodist Church in Orange Park.
"Stetson has a special place in my heart," Butchie Inman said. "LeeAnn loved Stetson, too.
She went to Princeton University to seminary and found that she was better prepared than
many of her fellow seminary students."
As longtime Methodists and loyal Stetson alumni, the Inmans decided to support both their
church and their university through their estate plan. The result was a Charitable Remainder
Unitrust, through which the Inmans receive income for life, with the remainder going to
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Stetson University alumni board
helps students build Habitat
for Humanity house
Members of Stetson University's
National Alumni Association
Board of Directors wielded
hammers and paint brushes in DeLand in
October, helping the university's student
chapter of Habitat for Humanity with the
house it is building.
"Community service is one of the core
values we have as a part of the Stetson
University tradition, and the alumni
association is delighted to have the
opportunity to help paint this Habitat for
Humanity house," said Robin Blanton of
Vero Beach, president of the alumni
association.
About a dozen alumni board members
came, he said, some from as far away as
Miami and Tampa. "We have a concerned
group of alumni who are active and
involved and want to do more than gather
together socially," said Blanton, a 1973
Stetson graduate in social sciences, who
went on to receive his law degree from
Stetson's College of Law in 1977. He
practices with the law firm of Moss,
Henderson, Blanton, Lanier, Kretschmer
and Murphy.
Don't forget
Stetson Weekend:
Jan. 26-28, 2001
Register on-line:
www.stetson.edu
Click on Alumni
Activities and Stetson
Weekend 2001.
